was a blast! Off and on throughout the weekend, Jack and I built a little pirate ship. Missy and I took Jack to Riverbanks Zoo on Saturday. The drive down was a lot of fun. We played several car games and just generally chatted. We walked around and made certain to see everyone's favorite animals. Of course we took a bazillion pictures... On Sunday ( Read more... )

was an incredible success! This year I ran it and did a Pirate theme. We had over 100 people in attendance who looked like they had a great time. We raised $157.00 in memory of Duchess Arielle. There were 16 rapier fighters with two new authorizations bringing us up to 18. I stole a scenario from one I fought at Gulf Wars XVI. A ship to ship battle ( Read more... )

So the company I am contracted with purchased a new assembly machine. They asked for our opinions on what could be improved over the machine it will be replacing. We sat down to do some brainstorming and came up with some design/function ideas. Most of them were accepted and implemented into the design. This was Spring of '08. The new assembly ( Read more... )

a Civil Engineer builds targets ( Read more... )

and I really don't have much planned. I spent a good portion of Thursday getting some plastic landscaping timbers for my dad. They are going to his Church. Three truckloads and then he tells me he is bringing his trailer down to haul them to Williamston. Sheesh... We could have left them at the site if he was going to do that! I hauled them to my ( Read more... )

Through my time in the SCA, I've seen many newcomers days, A&S days, heavy & rapier days; but nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to the day I observed on Saturday. It was, without a doubt, the most successful non-event newcomers/try-something-new day that I have ever seen.

Lord Elphin and Baroness Delia were gracious hosts, whom I believe were ( Read more... )

Well, we are back from Disney World. Jackson loved Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. He didn't much care for Animal Kingdom, but then he's six, what do ya really expect... We took a little over 1200 pictures, my wife loaded them onto her flickr account. We had a couple of videos as well. Jack got to fight Darth Vader and he LOVED it! He and ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to finish up the packing. Most of it is done, except for the last minute things ( Read more... )

Well, life has thrown me a curve ball. I've been so completely busy that I've not been able to post. Heck, I don't even answer emails like I used to. If you've emailed me and I haven't gotten back to you, then sorry. I'll reply as soon as possible ( Read more... )

Yep, it's that time of year. When you just get too busy to find a little time for yourself. So what did I get up to? Let's see, we had Yule Toy Tourney on 12/13, and I had a great time. I got to fight as much as I wanted to (well almost...), and the fighting was interesting. I think I did really well for someone who hasn't gotten to practice as ( Read more... )